BZB, I have made sausages many times and it is a fun, messy job. You need to put a full 1/2 day aside. Good also to have some help and to make a lot. My Kenwood has a mince and sausage attachment. This is why I still have it. I buy preservative free sausages from a local butcher. They are frozen as they don't keep. I have never heard of MSG in sausages. But as a flavour enhancer can accept that this might be the case.

Bonsai

I think most butchers that make their own sausages wouldn't use MSG. The ones I get from Frank's in Fremantle don't. I have made my own sausages - messy fun. Like Chookie I have the mincer/sausage attachment on my kenwood which makes it easier. I buy casings from a local butcher.